On May 8, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Summer wrote: > Hello, > > I previously inquired about stripping certain "html" entities, but > that proved ineffectual in the long run. I have found that the > database has all sorts of muck in it that really messes with > truncated display. Suffice to say. > > Is there a good way to get a chunk of data - in this case, a long > text string and strip all html from it? or everything and including > what is between the brackets <> > > Please advise. I apologize for the noob questions.
One of these ought to do the trick depending on your needs: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::Truncate http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::Obliterate http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::Strip HTH :) _______________________________________________ templates mailing list templates@template-toolkit.org http://mail.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
